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[Orklord123]

Does anyone know how to fix my problem?

[Rozieeeee]

Hello. I have this problem that whenever i press esc to access buttons like abort mission,save game,etc.  The display is still at the game, it is like it freezes the game interface  BUT you can hear the buttons whenever you click on their supposed position AND they respond to their according function.

[Handepsilon]

Change your game's renderer in the client's option. Common newer windows' bug

[Azaz3l]

Hello, I'm unable to start any of the Skirmish or Campaign games, whenever I start the game I get a "Yuri's revenge has encountered a fatal error" and the game seems to crash with the same log every time -

About to call gethostbyname
gethostbyname failed! Error code 11001

 
I tried setting compatibility mode to Windows XP SP3 and running as administrator but no luck.
 
Here's the full log:

Spoiler

Initialized Ares version: 18.257.1409
Ares requires a CPU with SSE support. Available.
Set Process Affinity: 1l (1)
Optimizing list of CD drives for NoCD mode.
Checking available disk space
Using GetDiskFreeSpaceEx
Free disk space is 51120 Mb
Init Encryption Keys.
Init_Keys - declarations
Init_Keys - Load
Init_Keys - Init fast key
 EXPANDMO99.MIX EXPANDMO97.MIX EXPANDMO96.MIX EXPANDMO95.MIX CACHE.MIX CACHE.MIX CACHE.MIX LOCAL.MIXMaxLabelLen = 31
Language: US
Focus_Restore()
Focus_Restore(): _MouseCaptured = false
Focus gained
Default
Default
Prep direct draw.
DSurface::Create_Primary
DSurface::AllowStretchBlits = true
DSurface::AllowHWFill = true
DSurface::Create_Primary - Creating surface
CreateSurface OK
DSurface::Create_Primary done
Allocating new surfaces
CompositeSurface (2392x1440) SYSTEM MEMORY ENABLE_3D
TileSurface (2392x1440) SYSTEM MEMORY ENABLE_3D
SidebarSurface (168x1440) SYSTEM MEMORY
HiddenSurface (2560x1440) SYSTEM MEMORY
AlternateSurface (2560x1440) SYSTEM MEMORY
Calc_Confining_Rect(0,0,2560,1440)
Profile: CPU:45 (4212Mhz Pentium 4)
Profile: RAM:10 (1024Mb)
Profile: VRAM:3 (0Mb)
Profile: VRAM speed:5 (0 blits per second)
Overall performance profile = 3
Main_Game
Init Game
Bootstrap.....LOADED NTRLMD.MIXLOADED NEUTRAL.MIX
event mempool size = 192000
 ...OK
Init Mouse
Init CDROM
Calling Force_CD_Available
Init Secondary Mixfiles..... CONQMD.MIX CONQUER.MIX CAMEOMD.MIX CAMEO.MIX mapsmo03.mixMULTIMO.MIX     Initializing ThemesMD.MIX
 THEME.MIX movmo03.mix ...OK
Init Campaigns
Init Heaps
Init Threads
Reading Game Settings
--------- Loading SUN.INI settings ---------------
GameSpeed = 1
Difficulty = 1
CampDifficulty = 0
ScrollMethod = 0
ScrollRate = 3
AutoScroll is ON
DetailLevel = 2
SideBar on RIGHT
Sidebar Text is ON
ActionLines are ON
ShowHidden is ON
ToolTips are ON
Resolution = 2560 X 1440
StretchMovies is OFF
AllowHiRes is OFF
SoundVolume = 1.000000
VoiceVolume = 1.000000
ScoreVolume = 1.000000
ScoreRepeat is OFF
ScoreShuffle is OFF
Emulated sound card latency default = 9
--------- Loading Ares global settings -----------
[Developer error]Unrecognized UI action value: show
[Developer error]Unrecognized UI action value: show
QuickExit is ON
AllowMultiEngineer is OFF
CampaignList is ON
ShowDebugCampaigns is OFF
Color count is 13
Mod is Mental Omega (3.3.4) with 94CCF84A
--------- Complete -------------------------------
Init Anim System
Init Color Remap Tables
Creating TacticalMap
Reading SOUNDMD.INI
Reading EVAMD.INI
Reading THEMEMD.INI
Reading MOVIEMD.INI
Init Bulk Data
RadarClass::One_Time()
Set_View_Dimensions(0,0,2392,1408)
Deleting ZBuffer
Allocating ZBuffer (2392x1408)
Deleting ABuffer
Allocating ABuffer (2392x1408)
MessageListClass::Init(Width: 2378)
MessageListClass::Set_Width(2384)
Set_View_Dimensions(exit)
Checking available disk space
Using GetDiskFreeSpaceEx
Free disk space is 51120 Mb
Session one time init. UniqueID is 9cc3b3f8
Init Rules
[Developer warning]BuildingType CAPALACE02 has a custom foundation which does not include cell 0,0. This breaks AI base building.
Init random number
Seed is 0a67bacb
Init Commands
Game Init Completed.
ExceptionReturnStack = 0019D484
ExceptionReturnAddress = 0048CDA8
Init random number
Seed is 0a67bacb
WinsockInterface constructed
WinsockInterface init.
About to call WSAStartup
Winsock initialised OK
Winsock version is 1.1
Found protocol afunix, max frame size is 0
Found protocol UDP/IP, max frame size is 65527
Found protocol UDP/IPv6, max frame size is 65527
Found protocol UDP/IP, max frame size is 65527
Found protocol UDP/IP, max frame size is 65527
Found protocol Vmbus, max frame size is 0
About to open primary UDP socket
About to bind the UDP socket to port 0
Socket option SO_RCVBUF set OK
Socket option SO_SNDBUF set OK
Primary UDP Socket init complete
IPX Manager: RetryDelta = 60
MaxAhead is 15
**** IPXManagerClass::Init ***
About to open primary UDP socket
About to bind the UDP socket to port 1234
Socket option SO_RCVBUF set OK
Socket option SO_SNDBUF set OK
Primary UDP Socket init complete
About to query the host name
About to call gethostbyname
gethostbyname failed! Error code 11001
Exception handler fired!
Exception C0000005 at 007B353E

Edited by Azaz3l, 19 August 2019 - 10:58 PM.

[CrimsonRaider]

It's not a crash, or anything, my PC just simply died, and I have to collect everything again. Could somebody send me a download link to the game (torrent perhaps), which is running on W10? I had problems with the previous version too, but it ran on my PC...now it doesn't even finish the installing process...

[SirMark9]

I have the Retail CDs, am trying to install on Windows 10, and have been following instructions for installation from the following links...
https://cncnz.com/fe...er-red-alert-2/

https://cncnz.com/fe...-yuris-revenge/

http://mentalomega.c...hp?page=install

 

However, it seems like I'm completely screwed for Mental Omega as I cannot use the XWIS workaround as it is incompatible with ARES. Specifically, I don't have the right gamemd.exe file as I have the gamemd-spawn.exe version.

 

As for the error itself, when attempting to launch a Skirmish or a Campaign Map, the standard error message will say "Could not load executable. // The system could not find the file specified." //  Attempting to simply rename the file results in a different error saying something along the lines to simply reinstall Yuri's Revenge. This is expected because the file itself was already incompatible.

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I can play Yuri's Revenge with the CnCNet client just fine, and can also play Yuri's Revenge single-player just fine (after moving the single-player files from the disks over). As an aside, I have two separate copies of Yuri's Revenge, one for CnCNet and one for Mental Omega. They are both identical, save the Mental Omega variant having all the MO stuff in it.

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So, is there any solution to this or I just simply can't play MO with my old Retail CDs and modern operating system?

Edited by SirMark9, 13 September 2019 - 01:01 AM.

[Speeder]

SirMark9 gamemd-spawn.exe makes it sound like you have some ancient CnCNet version that still did the file renaming and thus has replaced you original gamemd.exe with the one that made multiplayer spawns possible. Reinstall, get that original file back, patch it to 1.001 and you should be fine. It says it couldn't load the executable because there's probably no file named gamemd.exe in the directory and even if it's there, it's the wrong version.

 

And just in case, don't install MO where your YR with its own CnCNet files is.

[meganadz]

Can anyone, help me with this problem?

 

[Speeder]

meganadz Try getting the patch files manually: https://www.moddb.co...h-manual-update

[meganadz]

Thank you boss, After i download it what will i do next?

 

meganadz Try getting the patch files manually: https://www.moddb.co...h-manual-updateou 

[SirMark9]

SirMark9 gamemd-spawn.exe makes it sound like you have some ancient CnCNet version that still did the file renaming and thus has replaced you original gamemd.exe with the one that made multiplayer spawns possible. Reinstall, get that original file back, patch it to 1.001 and you should be fine. It says it couldn't load the executable because there's probably no file named gamemd.exe in the directory and even if it's there, it's the wrong version.

 

And just in case, don't install MO where your YR with its own CnCNet files is.

 

The main issue with my installation is that I cannot install with my Retail CDs, as the installer does not work with Windows 10. So, I had to download the XWIS multiplayer files (from here) and then manually copy over from files from the disks. I would dust off my old 2004 Dell PC that has Windows XP to try and install there and just copy the files over, but that computer is missing a monitor cable...

 

I have already read that the XWIS Multiplayer version is not compatible with MO 3.3, so I'm trying to find a workaround. From my point of view, it seems like I'm just missing the proper gamemd.exe file as I have everything else.

 

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I have tried a new installation without CnCNet, and now I simply do not have a gamemd.exe file at all. If one wants an image of the "clean XWIS installation" without CnCNet or Mental Omega, it is below for convenience.

 

Since I don't have access to a "proper clean install," I'm guessing I won't be able to play the mod.

 

 

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EDIT: I have received assistance elsewhere and am now running Mental Omega. My issue is now closed. Thanks for the assistance!

Edited by SirMark9, 13 September 2019 - 08:37 PM.

[Verlock]

hey i don't know what causes this problem but when i press start game from a lobby ( skirmish or multiplayer ) and mental omega minimize to open Yuri's revenge it takes too long to open the game client. my brother and i downloaded it together but he doesn't have this problem. i take too long that sometimes if he loads too fast early the game kicks me out. 

Edit: now i take a very long time that i cant join anything !!!!!!  PLZ help !!!

off topic: is there a way to launch mental omega without cnc.net ? like we open the normal red alert games ? i downloaded mental omega on the Yuri's revenge copy that i installed the cnc.net client in. so im asking if i can open the game without the online client.

 

Edited by Verlock, 19 September 2019 - 12:10 PM.

[Foxtrot731]

I'm getting an error stating i had too many retries on downloaading expandmo99.mix even though I just barely even started updating the client. How can I solve this?

[Terminal Velocity]

@Foxtrot731

meganadz Try getting the patch files manually: https://www.moddb.co...h-manual-update

[Vaultaire]

Hey y'all. So I got this on my laptop (Win 10) and the game is laggy as hell, doesn't even open the pause menu. I've read that I need to change renderer, but I've tried them all and only the TS-DDRAW helped a bit, but it is still not really responsive as on the pause menu I can't click some buttons at all and same goes for quite many buildings and units because idk. Diagnose me pls.

[flack]

Hey y'all. So I got this on my laptop (Win 10) and the game is laggy as hell, doesn't even open the pause menu. I've read that I need to change renderer, but I've tried them all and only the TS-DDRAW helped a bit, but it is still not really responsive as on the pause menu I can't click some buttons at all and same goes for quite many buildings and units because idk. Diagnose me pls.

 

What laptop are you using? I used a gaming laptop before and I turned xbox recording off it worked out fine. Maybe some program is running in the background when your game is running.

[CrimsonRaider]

It's not a crash, or anything, my PC just simply died, and I have to collect everything again. Could somebody send me a download link to the game (torrent perhaps), which is running on W10? I had problems with the previous version too, but it ran on my PC...now it doesn't even finish the installing process...

 

Thanks for the replying. Oh wait....

[Zoombek]

i made a linux iso wich allows you to play mental omega, just boot and play, no install needed. anyone wants to test?

Can you send me a link please?

[Vaultaire]

 

Hey y'all. So I got this on my laptop (Win 10) and the game is laggy as hell, doesn't even open the pause menu. I've read that I need to change renderer, but I've tried them all and only the TS-DDRAW helped a bit, but it is still not really responsive as on the pause menu I can't click some buttons at all and same goes for quite many buildings and units because idk. Diagnose me pls.

 

What laptop are you using? I used a gaming laptop before and I turned xbox recording off it worked out fine. Maybe some program is running in the background when your game is running.

 

Erm... It's not a gaming laptop, but I can assure programs are not stalling the game.

Also, tried turning on the back buffer, which helped, but the speed does not compare to my old win 7 PC where the game runs perfectly (minus the frequent exit to desktop or the occasional game crash(heeeeey, anybody got a fix for that? ))